The Denier

The Symbols

Desert, Racetrack Playa, Sailing Stones, Stone, Salamander, Crown, Raven, Joshua Tree, Tree of Life, Mountain, Time-lapse, Night, Spiral, Elemental Fire, River Lethe

Might Mean

Detachment: letting go, shedding one's old life, cutting the cord, playing it cool, hands off, not caring, fragmentation, dissociation, attention deficit, neglect, cold shoulder, apathy, cold blooded, emotionally unavailable, freeze response

Negation: denial, rejection, disapproval, dismissive, repression, deprivation, avoidance, deflection, not my problem, insensitivity, self-denial, harsh, expecting to be hurt, being guarded, suspicion, unselfishness

Impermanence: ending, deadline, quitting, sacrifice, discontinuity, mortality, breaking the cycle, escape, reset, cancelling, abandonment, instability, throw away

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

The story of The Tree of Life (the movie that inspired this card)

Detachment (the story of a world that stopped caring)

Film Philosophy – The Sacrifice

Skinny Jeans Boyfriends Dating Pattern – Your Sister's Sister,
Fire Me, Cocoon of Self-Banishment – Up In The Air
The Challenge of Being Close

The Tree of Life: Crafting an Existential Masterpiece,
The Theme of Eternal Recurrence in Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice,
Mythology of Sacrifice, Refusal of The Suitors - Joseph Campbell

"The snake often means resurrection on account of the shedding of its skin. According to an African myth, there was no death on earth originally, death came by mistake. People could shed their skins every year and so they were always new, rejuvenated, until once an old woman, in a distracted condition and feeble-minded, put on and old skin again and then she died. That is the way in which death came into the world. It is again the idea that human beings were like snake originally, they did not die. The snake was always associated with death, but death out of which new life was born."

– C.G. Jung

TV Shows:
Russian Dolls (Netflix)

Songs:
Chanson Noire – L'Heptade (Harmonium),
Sisyphus (Andrew Bird)

Sisyphus – Andrew Bird (Breaks Down His Song, Sisyphus)

Podcasts:
5th Vital Sign (Invisibilia),
Life and Death of a Melody – Loops (Radiolab),
Serial Ghosters (This American Life),
Just Sex: Hookup Culture (Hidden Brain)

Writings:
Fables of the Salamander and the Seahorse,
Practicing the Subtle Art of Detachment, Attachment Theory,
When, Why, and How To Say No, Avoider Love Style,
Why Women Stay In Relationships With Unavailable Men,
The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs,
How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails

French Leave, Francis I of France, Detachment (Philosophy), Avoidance,
Avoidance Response, Autotomy, Eternal Return, Learned Helplessness,
Mind-Body Problem, Enso, Emotional Abandonment & Detachment, SPD,
Cancel Culture, Sacrifice, Throw Away Society, Denial, Cycle of Abuse,
Abuse, Counterdependency, Neglect, No Bad Parent Myth, Freeze Response

"The crocodile, as well as the tortoise and any other cold-blooded animal, represents extremely archaic psychology of the cold-blooded thing in us. We have a trace of it in our anatomy, in the structure of the nervous system. That is the thing we never can understand – that somewhere we are terribly cold-blooded. There are people who, under certain circumstances, would be capable of things which they simply could not admit."

– C.G. Jung

"I nourish the good and extinguish the bad" – King Francis 1st

Literature:
The Fox and the Grapes (Aesop),
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat)

"Dragons breathing flame
On my counterpane
That doesn't frighten me at all."

Art:
Tree of Life (Gustav Klimt)